MY TESTIMONY

[Shirley]

My Testimony:
God is so great! My husband and I are both 5th generations of Apostolic Pentecostal Christian family. We are both so proud of that fact.! I was raised in church and never knew any other life. I am so thankful for that. My mom was a minister and my dad was behind her 100%! It was wonderful. I watched as the Lord used my mother and dad through their ministry! Dad was always there to help and encourage my mom. It was a wonderful life and I wouldn't trade it for any other. I loved God. When I was a young girl, God filled me with the Holy Ghost! It was the greatest experience of my life! God has always been my best friend and my guide and my help.
I couldn't imagine living a life without God.
My husband and I got married in 1962. As of this year, we have been married 47 years. He is the pastor of our church. In our young years I had never imagined that one day God would call him to the ministry.
God gives us our mates. He sure did give me mine.
I am so terribly proud of him.
In 2001 I started have odd symptoms. I would shake and couldn't think straight. It kept getting worse and worse. The doctors didn't know what was wrong. My daughter typed in my symptoms and it came up a rare auto-immune disease that the doctor had never treated before.
They didn't believe her. It was Hashimoto Encephalopathy. It is where the antibodies in the blood attack the neutron of the brain. I was very very sick. I almost died. I went into a coma. This occured in July of 2002. My husband took all the information my daughter had got off the internet and showed it to the doctor that was caring for me at that time. He was filling in for my doctor that was on vacation. So to make a long story short, I was shipped to Kalamazoo Hospital in the critical care ward. My doctor was Dr. Bhan, he is a lung specialist. He took excellent care of me and is still taking care of me. God had proved again what a great God he is! I am on prednisone to keep the disease under control. It has never attacked my throid. That is what it is suppost to do but it has never. Well, I know why it hasn't because God is taking care of me.
I am starting to feel better and get back to normal. It is in November and my Eddie can't talk above a whisper. He think he has the virus that is going around. Everyone is having this problem at that time.
He goes to the doctor and get antibiodics. He still can't talk.
He goes back to the doctor again and nothing is working.
On January 2nd he goes to another doctor, the one that took care of me in the hospital. He says Eddie let's try this again and if it doesn't work we will send you to a throat specialist. On January 3rd Eddie gets up and his throat has a big swollen spot sticking out. He goes to the doctor and he sends him for xray. When we get home the doctor says to call him, I did. While I am talking to him, Eddie says tell the doctor I am having a hard time breathing. He says go immediately to the hospital. Well, this is another long story but I'm going to shorten it up.
Eddie has cancer in his throat and he was stage 4. He went through chemo. Eddie licked the cancer, cause God was with him all the way. He never lost his voice. It is as strong as ever. Of course, the chemo affected his heart, in October he thought he was going to die but again God took care of him. You say why did all that happen??? I will tell you this, if we never go through any valleys, then how are we going to help someone else that is in a valley. If we never experience pain, sorrow, grief, deep saddness, then how would we ever relate to someone else that is going through that hour of need. Because of what Eddie and I both went through we have helped so many people that are experiencing those problems. Eddie's voice could not be silenced, cause God was going to use him in a mighty ministry. I am his helpmate! I work right beside him for God!! God has taken care of us.
It didn't all end there, in 2004 my brother was diagnosed with cancer in his lungs. God had said Charles, it is time to come home! Eddie was my brother's assistant pastor. He had prayed the prayer of faith for me and Eddie. He was a great man of God!! It broke my heart to lose him but God said it was time for him to come home. God works in mysterious ways his wonders to perform. My brother was a beautiful musician that played the organ and piano like an angel! I can see him now sitting up in heaven on God's beautiful organ playing praises to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords!! My eyes fill with tears cause we miss his beautiful presence. But I wouldn't ask for him back in this life at all. He is with God now as the rest of the family are.
God is so great. Eddie's messages are marvelous and powerful.
God has worked in OUR lifes in a mysterious way. I am thankful for
every trial for every pain for every sorrow!! Why?? Because I have grown into a better person for God. My faith is stronger, I am kinder, I am more gentle, I am more compassionate, I overlook faults and see peoples needs. God has really worked on me and I thank him for that.
Cause my aim is to help everyone I can to get to heaven above. If I clear out the road to heaven above, I can make it easy for those behind.
Just as Elijah made it easy for Elisha!!
Praise our wonderful God.
I hope my testimony blesses you as much as it has blessed me to write it. It has brought back some power emotions within me.
I love God better everyday. He has never ever failed me. All his promises he has kept. Every desire I wanted as a child God has given to me. He is the greatest, most powerful, most awesome God!!
I praise His Name!!!

[Terri]

Shirley!
What a fantastic testimony you have! I see a Lung specialist too...I have 45% lung compacity. I am on oxygen and a bipap at night & have oxygen for the day.
I have experienced many things in my life....one more river to cross..one more mountain to climb...but I know that our Lord is alive & well and nothing is too hard for him.
~Bless our Beautiful God~

[TERISA]

your are a true sister to me god is so wonderful god bless you and bro. eddie you and him has been thought a lot like me and frank but one thing god has never fail us god bless terisa